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waffle

[wof-uhl] / ˈwɒf əl /


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Along with six all-beef hot dogs and six sauces, the $60 tower comes with waffle fries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Be honest with yourself: Are you really going to use the dusty waffle maker in your kitchen cabinet?

From MarketWatch Feb. 23, 2026

I don’t eat that great, but if you’re ever gonna eat bad, Sunday is the day to do it, so you gotta get the waffle.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 7, 2025

Sandra: What on earth was that waffle in the post-match interview?

From BBC Oct. 2, 2025

Peppermint choc chip and passion fruit, in a waffle cone.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Haggard waffled over the years on whether the anti-hippie hardliner anthem was a satire of the crew cut set or a genuine tribute to his conservative father.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

He threw out defeatism and acted when everyone else waffled.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 5, 2026

Sauer waffled, prompting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to leap in and tell him: “Could you just answer the justice’s question?”

From Slate Nov. 5, 2025

While Dolan’s office said New York was “blessed with the greatest bagel stores in the world,” the cardinal waffled on announcing from which establishment he would be buying the goods.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2024

Every time he waffled, though, Lydia would whip out her phone or her laptop and show him the steadily increasing number of views, comments, and likes “Dearly” had.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

It’s important to precisely define and label this market shift—how else can I claim to have seen it coming all along, while waffling about what happens next?

From Barron's Feb. 20, 2026

When “Yellowstone,” Sheridan’s first show, premiered in 2018, #MeToo was reverberating across television with producers waffling over whether to villainize or defend macho characters.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

He never apologised to the fans that paid good money, he shrugged off questions and started waffling.

From BBC Sep. 26, 2025

But this constant tonal waffling results in an audience that sees something strange and laughs because they’ve been trained by filmmakers to think that, when something is uncomfortable, laughter is the appropriate response.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2025

The judge seemed to be waffling as well.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng




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